Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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InterviewsBEAK> on scoring Couple in a Hole
Bristolian krautrock disciples BEAK> provided a menacing and evocative score for the Pyrenees-set drama. Ahead of its screening at Restless Natives, Geoff Barrow and Billy Fuller tell us how they handled the task Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Live MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – May 2016
'Gigs' feels like an insufficient term for the sensory treats in store this May: from Immix Ensemble's collaboration with Vessel to the return of sonic demigod Tim Hecker Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Interviews
Restless Natives sets up in Glasgow's East End
Keen to redress the cultural balance in Glasgow, an ambitious week-long multidisciplinary festival opens its doors at seven venues and studios in and around the East End from 9-15 May. We talk to some of the players behind Restless Natives Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
ReviewsJulianna Barwick – Will
The latest from the Brooklyn-based composer offers further fascination for those hypnotised by the ambient soundscapes of 2013's breakthrough Nepenthe. ... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – May 2016
With summer festival season setting up its boggin' two-man tent in a field near you in just a minute, May’s Scottish live music hit list offers respite in the great indoors Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Live MusicOught @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 22 Apr
Although Broadcast’s low-lying stage has remained unaltered since Ought last played here 2 years ago, the Montreal art-punk quartet’s personal st... Read more »| 02 May 2016
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Festivals
Dot to Dot festival, Manchester: the local acts
Dot to Dot announce the local talent playing at this year's festival. Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
White Lung – Paradise
2014’s sterling Deep Fantasy saw White Lung thrashing away under a mushroom cloud of eardrum-rattling guitar effects – a triumphant honing of eve... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Outblinker – The Remains of Water Peck EP
A three-track sneak peek of the album due out later in the year, the latest EP from the Glasgow five-piece balances precariously between the ecumenical and t... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
ReviewsJC Flowers – Driving Excitement and the Pleasure of Ownership
Londoners JC Flowers are certainly full of ideas. Baudrillard is loftily cited on the press release, suggesting a knowing angle to their classicist psych-pop... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Ghold – Pyr
OWCH. You know that feeling when someone repeatedly bashes your skull with a meat tenderiser until it caves and the bone splinters and the pain goes fuz... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
False Advertising – Brainless EP
Just a heads-up; you can disregard the Mancunian band's moniker and the EP's title. Over five tracks on Brainless, their follow-up to last year's stupid... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Interviews
Composer-Curator: Neil Luck's Resonance FM show
A new radio show on Resonance FM, Drivetime Underground, presents experimental music in a commercial, 'magazine'-style format – aiming to subvert ... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Yoni & Geti – Testarossa
In its original conception, Testarossa comprised the soundtrack to a script formulated by Why? mainman Yoni Wolf and fellow alt rapper Serengeti. E... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
We Are Scientists – Helter Seltzer
You’ve heard it before: indie band makes waves with intoxicating studio debut, and lives forever in its shadow. In the decade since the squeaky-clean n... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016